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Monitoring and optimizing datacenter spending and resource utilization can help to reduce costs and improve efficiency. By tracking and analyzing datacenter usage, you can identify areas where you are overspending or underutilizing the resources
Why this matters: unlike cloud spend, datacenter cost doesn't come from a provider invoice you can just read off — it comes from your own hardware, which means overspending shows up as underutilized capacity (racks and hosts running well below what they're provisioned for) rather than a line item you can flag. These dashboards make that utilization visible, which is the only way to catch it.
Who uses this:
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FinOps managers track datacenter spend alongside cloud spend, so total infrastructure cost stays visible in one place instead of the cloud bill being the only thing anyone watches.
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Engineering leads use the utilization data to decide whether to add capacity or reclaim underused hardware, rather than buying more before checking what's already sitting idle.
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Finance leaders use these dashboards to justify datacenter capital spend against actual usage, instead of relying on estimates.